Benjamín Labatut
Catnip for culture lovers
Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
Women’s March madness
The London Women’s March was hypocritical and blinkered
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
